The Talking Drum
Braxton, Lisa Winner, 2020 National Association of Black Journalists Outstanding Literary Award, Overall Winner, 2020 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Award, Winner, 2021 IPPY Gold Medal for Urban Fiction, Finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year AwardsFeatured on Ms. Magazine's June 2020 Reads for the Rest of Us and Bustle's 23 Debut Books That Are Too Good To Ignore. It is 1971. The fictional city of Bellport, Massachusetts, is in decline with an ur...